From Pythagoras To Max Planck,
An Evolution In Human
Consciousness
and Our Perception of the Archetype, "Deity".
Copyright ©2012 RWB Wesley F Revels
"None of the things which are
comprehended by the senses or comprehended by the mind really subsist; Nothing
except the transcendent essence and cause of all".
St. Gregory of Nyssa, AD 335 - 395
"We are becoming more and
more aware that, we are each of us, both reflection and cause, of the whole of
the universe. And, it is all too obvious
and understated to say, secular and cleric or religious fascism is the cause of
many a death in spirit."
RWB Wesley F Revels
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An Evolution In Consciousness,
Humanity's Perception Of The
Archetype "Deity".
How exactly do we explain the
evolution of consciousness through a history of humanity? Is it not true that
as Deity (Holy Logos) remains constant, our perception of the Archetype
we perceive as Deity within our collective consciousness changes? One
way would be to show how the perceived Hierophant or Holy Logos inspiring
humanity has evolved through an awareness of itself simultaneously as
humanity perceives the inspired teaching from the holy logos as Deity. The very
term logos however, is misinterpreted from its original meaning. The
Greek word Logos, used in the Gospel of John 1:1
"In the beginning was the word ...", in Strong's Exhaustive
Concordance, reference number #3056 defines Logos as something said or thought,
a subject of discourse or reasoned or as in the Gospel of John as the Divine
Expression (i.e. The incarnation of The Christ, Yeshua). Christian
theologians attempt to equate the term Logos with the Hebrew God, Elohim as in Genesis 1:3, God Said, "Let there
be light", the expression of God's Self as Deity. But this is a
misuse of the term. To proclaim God as Deity is Idolatrous to the Hebrew. If
God's Eminence is constant throughout the universe, then why are there so many
definitions of God? Would this not mean
that God evolves through individual consciousness as humanity evolves. To
many theologians the expression of God from a Hebrew perspective comes from
Genesis 1:2, "the Spirit, Ruach, of
God...", literally meaning "breath of God", which is more
descriptive as the Holy Spirit than the Deity as Yeshua. So, to the Christian,
Yeshua is more the Hierophant to humanity than the Deity balloted and
pronounced God, at the Nicene Council in 346 A.D.
An example showing this
relationship and evolution in consciousness in humanity can be compared. Showing
the cosmology of early Greek philosophic/scientific thought, and contemporary
philosophic/scientific research in a Quantum perception of reality today we can
easily see this evolution.
The Ptolemaic or Pythagorean
perception that all souls are predestined was made obsolete with Quantum
Theory. In a quantum universe although there is a randomness in all of life,
there remains a probability as forms take shape within the laws of physical
matter in our universe. Therefore, our perception of our "Self"
individually is directly connected with our perception of the collective self resting
the human consciousness in total. And there is a common consciousness
that connects all living things in the universe.
The Freemason and the Mystic
Teachings, Unity in Duality, How Our Conscious Perception of the
Archetype "Deity" Evolves Through Time.
"Setting Our Moral
Compasses"
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Freemasons with interests in the
Mystic or contemplative tradition observe the symbols and listen to the
lectures, seeking wisdom sophia, and truth alethia, and in the beginning it is
through faith pistis, they begin their study. But, the only secrets
to Freemasons are those not seen through their own blindness. This
"blindness" is most easily recognized when viewing the art of
academic Medieval/Renaissance portrayals showing the Pythagorean/Ptolemaic
Structure of the universe before the 1600s A.D., an example of which is shown
above, compared with how we perceive the universe today. According to the
Ptolemaic scheme of the universe before Copernicus, Galileo and Newton, Earth
was the center of the universe, the Sun and Moon were planets which with
Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn totaled seven (7) Gateways or
Dominions in the heavens.
These dominions encircled the
Earth in the form of crystalline spheres and at each respective planet there
were principalities or mediators who officiated the coming and going of human
souls as they descended and ascended through the heavens in birth and death on
their way to the "Prime Mover", God. Now, the description just given
may seem comical to us today. A fairy tale. But its important to remember that
this perceived reality was imagined as an Archetype of Deity. This
understanding is important because we find this Pythagorean/Ptolemaic,
Platonic, perception inter-weaved in Biblical teaching, New and Old Testament,
Old Testament post
Babylonian captivity and in the
Gospels of the New Testament. For this reason we are taught that it
is through The Deity Christ, Incarnated as Jesus, that we transcend the cycle
of birth, death and rebirth, before ascending or returning to "That house
not made with hands eternal in the heavens". And until the new Copernican/Planck,
perception of the universe was accepted in modern times, all spiritual and
physical perceptions including how humanity perceived the Deity of God and
God's dwelling place based on this Pythagorean/Ptolemaic or Platonic structure
of the universe, were religious law and millions of people suffered the penalty
of death both physically and spiritually in the most cruel manner. Yet, it
is the Archetype Deity resting in the collective conscious, represented as the
Holy Word or Logos, as explained above that the contemplative Freemason sets
his focus for a moral compass, the symbol being the "Point In A
Circle", as explained in my earlier entry "Meditations
On Unity In Duality".
Understanding The Esoteric
Mysteries
As Originally Intended
As Originally Intended
Today, the Contemplative Freemason
studying the mystics, contrary to popular belief or teaching (the classic
experience of the vision based on the now archaic Ptolemaic understanding)
is not recognized through our senses or experienced in the physical, with which
examples abound in the Gospels, rather through our consciousness coming through
an awareness that is a non-physical or transcendental Self. Dr. Carl Gustav Jung
would call this non-physical conscious awareness the Collective Self. As a
result we can interpret inspired Biblical teaching through a "Lens"
with a new introspective understanding called the "Introvertive Vision
Experience", by Dr. Walter T Stace. In his book "The Teaching
Of The Mystics" A Mentor Book Copyright © 1960, Dr. Walter T Stace writes, pg
17 (7), "Suppose that one could shut all physical sensations out of one's
consciousness. [As in Meditation]. It may be thought that this would be easy as
regards some of the senses, namely sight, hearing, taste, and smell.
One can shut one's eyes, stop up one's ears and hold one's nose. One can
avoid taste sensations by keeping one's mouth empty. But one cannot shut off
the tactile (touch) sensation in any simple way. And it would be even
more difficult to get rid of organic sensations (the internal sensations of the
body's biological mechanism)." And,
there is only one way to remove thoughts that constantly keep one's conscious
mind active. Through meditation.
All physical senses are
experienced in one's mind on the surface levels of one's consciousness, and it
is only by transcending and not suppressing, the physical and mental
senses through introspection during meditation that one is able to
experience one's True Self within the Collective Consciousness. And, this
Collective Consciousness is first experienced as seemingly random thoughts
surfacing in one's consciousness. As one
gains more experience in meditation however, one experiences consciousness as a
"Vacuum Of Silence". It is in this Vacuum Of Silence, that one
is able to experience the Collective Consciousness of the Self, and a "Unity
In Duality". Therefore, I will proceed to the next step in the
contemplative Freemason's preparation for study of the symbols and lectures in
Freemasonry. The meditation its' self and the lifestyle that voluntarily
accompanies it, seemingly as a discipline at first later becomes a lifestyle
with boundless enjoyment. At least this has been my experience. There are
many different types of meditations used for many purposes. The meditation
described in the next lesson is one originally taught by Patanjali, and is
recognized as the foundation of all meditations.
The New Paradigm Of Humanity's
Perception
Of The Archetype "Deity", For This New Age.
It was through the sacrifices and
efforts of the great scientists, philosophic and biblical scholars of the
Renaissance through the enlightenment period up to the mid 1900s, that the
"New Scientist" today, views life etymologically with a "Quantum
View", of reality. That is to say that a quantum or transcendent
view of the universe reflects more a continuum that has no beginning or end
rather evolves from moment to moment. Reality and the consciousness of
reality evolves in a continuum that is not linear in nature but rather
trans-mutates from one photon to other photons or species virtually through a
medium of "Free-Space" also known as the vacuum of space, the vacuum
of the collective consciousness.
It was the famous physicist James
Clerk Maxwell who discovered that electric and magnetic fields traveled through
space in the form of waves and at a constant speed of light. Using this
discovery, defining that wave form and energy have constant velocity, relative
to frequency, it has become known as Planck's Constant. Max Planck,
divided this constant in the "energy frequency waveform relationship"
that makes up all physical matter, and together with Louis de Broglie, founded
Quantum Physics.
Quantum Physics Proves
the Ancient Esoteric Teachings.
the Ancient Esoteric Teachings.
Quantum physics principals however
were taught in the ancient mystery schools for millenia through the esoteric
teachings of Pythagoras, the Hermetic Science of Hermes Trismegistus, and even
the earlier teachings of Patanjali in India. The Christ teachings as the
Holy Logos, from his sermons and parables teach the salvation of the soul
through redeeming grace.
A New Paradigm Of Consciousness,
A New Perception Of Deity.
A New Perception Of Deity.
The Pythagorean perception of
Deity in Freemasonry and how the symbols taught to initiates through the
symbols and lectures are becoming more and more misunderstood because the
adepts who teach them are becoming fewer as memorization and proficiency
becomes more and more relaxed. Also, as humanity evolves and shifts into
the "New Paradigm Of Consciousness" toward the next age, it will be
the responsibility of the proficient few who understand this new paradigm, who
will interpret this new evolved consciousness through the Hierophant or Holy
Logos, that brought humanity to this current point in time. And even
today their knowledge and awareness continues to enlighten modern society.
